How does Reddit and Twitter (maybe even Hackernews) and basically everyone else get around this besides Facebook? Is Reddit paying for every link now? I don't understand why I'm only hearing about Facebook with regard to issue
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The Canadian law names Meta and Google specifically. Others are not affected. It's targeted extortion.
I am not aware of Meta or Google being specifically named in the law, could you please provide a source for this?
This page does not make that reference at least: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/online-n...
The bill text is here: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-18/royal-a...
The relevant piece from the summary is:
> (d) requires the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the “Commission”) to maintain a list of digital news intermediaries in respect of which the enactment applies;
CRTC is a government entity so the government reserves the power to decide who is on the list. I couldn't find the list online though.
No presence in Canada?